Pennefather, General Sir John Lysaght (2nd Division)
Persia: Anglo-Persian War (1856 – 7) British diplomacy loss of Erivan and Nakhichevan khanates (1828) occupation of Herat (1837 – 57) Russian advisers
Persigny, Jean Gilbert Fialin, duc de
Pestel’, Vladimir (governor of Simferopol)
Peter I the Great, Tsar: demands Greek rights at Holy Sepulchre ‘Testament of … .’
Peto, Samuel, Balaklava railway
Petrashevsky circle
Pflug, Ferdinand (doctor in Tsarist army)
Phanariots
Philiki Etaireia (Society of Friends)
photography: from the war zone wounded in military hospitals see also lithographs
Piedmont-Sardinia: annexation of Naples central Italian states annexed leads movement for Italian unification offers troops for Crimea war with Austria (1859) see also Sardinian army
Pine, Pvt John (Rifle Bde), death from scurvy and other conditions
Pirogov, Nikolai (military surgeon) work with nurses
Pius IX, Pope
Pluton (French steam corvette), lost in hurricane (1854)
Podpalov, Prokofii (orderly to Gen Golev)
Pogodin, Mikhail, pan-Slavism of
Poland Napoleon III’s plan Polish Legion to the allies (Sultan’s Cossacks) Palmerston’s plans for Paris Peace Conference (1856) and Polish officers in Hungarian army provisional Polish government revolutionary ‘Zouaves of Death’ seeks help from Napoleon Bonaparte struggle for freedom from Russia support in Britain support in France Warsaw uprising put down by Russia (1831) see also Congress Poland
Polar Star magazine
Polish army: disperses to Prussia and Western Europe (1831) joins the uprising (1830)
Polish exiles in Kars
Polotsk, Synod of (1839)
Poltava, battle of (1709)
Polusky, Russian General, truce after Mamelon fight
Ponsonby, John, 1st Viscount Hatt-i Sharif reforms and Vixen incident and
Popandul, Capt. (Russian artillery)
Portal, Robert (British cavalry officer), letters home
the Porte see Ottoman Empire
Porter, Maj (later Maj Gen) Whitworth RE race meeting Russian night raids spade work not appreciated
The Portfolio (Urquhart periodical)
Potemkin, Prince Grigorii
Pradt, Dominique-Georges-Frédéric de, Parallèle de la puissance anglaise et russe relativement à l’Europe
Press, the: and British public opinion campaign against Prince Albert censorship in France censorship free in Britain censorship in Russia effect of abolishing stamp duty in Britain false news reports influence of on British Politics influence on French foreign policy middle classes and in Britain and public opinion in Turkey reports of sufferings of troops war correspondents see also journalism; war correspondents by name (Chenery, Russell, Woods)
Priestley, Sgt (13th Lt Dragoons), first casualty of Crimea campaign
Prince, SS (supply ship), sunk in hurricane
Pristovoitov, Colonel, shortlived command of Soimonov’s Division
Protestants: the British character and church leaders and declaration of war Evangelicals with romantic views of Islam granted millet status by the Sultan missionary work in Ottoman Empire reaction to Orthodox rituals in Jerusalem see also Anglicans
Prussia: more reliable ally for Russia and Palmerston’s plans peace initiative (1853) war with Austrian Empire (1866) war with Denmark (1864) war with France (1870)
Pudovkin, Vsevolod, Admiral Nakhimov (film)
Pushkin, Alexander
Putiatin, Admiral Yevfimy Vasilyevich
Putin, Vladimir
Quarantine Battery (Sevastopol)
Quarry pits (Sevastopol)
Quarterly Review (journal)
Radcliffe, Capt William (20th Regt of Foot), letters home
Raglan, FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan, C-in-C Crimea plans defence of London (1852) insistence on impractical uniform instructed to invade the Crimea (1854) refuses to carry out order to take Sevastopol and Perekop pre-landing conference with Saint-Arnaud at Alma unable to press on to Sevastopol wants immediate assault on Sevastopol advises against speaking to William Russell at Balaklava council of war with Canrobert and Omer Pasha initiates Light Brigade blunder warnings of weakness of British defences letter to Panmure about a Mamelon attack protests to Menshikov about Inkerman atrocities rejects encirclement of Sevastopol rejects Napoleon III’s field campaign Redan aftermath and death
railways: Balaklava Railway Euphrates Valley Railway in Russia
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, in Baghdad
Read, General, Chernaia river battle (1855)
Redan (Sevastopol) first British attack second British attack
Reeve, Henry
Reform Act (Great Britain 1832)
refugees: Orthodox Bulgarians Orthodox Christians from Bessarabia Polish Russians and Greeks in the Crimea Tatars
religion: British Protestantism clerical views of war in Britain importance of in Russia muscular Christianity Muslim troops at Silistria role of in fuelling wars Russian ‘weak neighbour’ policy and
religious toleration, in Turkey
religious wars: Nicholas I and Russia and Muslim neighbours see also Russo-Turkish wars
Resolute (supply ship), sunk in hurricane
Retribution, HMS (steam-frigate)
Rhodes, to go to Britain
Richelieu, Armand du Plessis, Duc de, Odessa
Ridiger, Gen Fedor, Count, on need for military reforms
Rifaat Pasha (Ottoman Foreign Minister)
Robertson, James (war photographer)
Rochebrune, François, ‘Zouaves of Death’
Roebuck, John MP, calls for a select committee to investigate the army
Romaine, William (Deputy Judge Advocate)
Romania Crimean War beginnings debated at Paris Peace Congress (1856) Organic Statute (Règlement organique) Russian response to 1848 revolution see also Danubian principalities; Moldavia; Wallachia
Romanian exiles, in Britain
Rose, Colonel Sir Hugh calls for naval support endorses Pélissier
Rosetti, Constantine (Romanian exile)
Roubaud, Franz, The Defence of Sevastopol (panorama)
Rowe, John, Storekeeper (army commisariat), brings in wounded
Rowlands, Capt Hugh (Derbys Regt)
Royal Marines, at Balaklava
Royal Navy: ability to threaten Russia attack on Odessa (1854) Baltic campaign (1854) Baltic campaign (1855) at Beykoz Bomarsund bombardment bombardment, of Sevastopol defence of invasion convoy fleet moved to Besika Bay (1833; 1849 & 1853) forces Russo-Turkish armistice (1878) helps quieten Constantinople demonstrations Kerch raid (1855) Naval Brigade, on shore artillery put on war footing (1853) sails to Alexandria (1840) see also Great Britain
Royal Patriotic Fund for the relief of soldiers wives